The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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